Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Christopher Cox

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Tim Ryan

The one statistic that former Secretary Reich shared with us last week was that one in five of the jobs in the United States of America that were lost have been lost in the State of Ohio.

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Alvin Sykes

One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civil Rights violations and got a few years. The others were acquitted.

Stephen Hadley

If we don't get it on the trip, then we'll get it after the trip, because the parties are committed to make this relationship work in the civil nuclear area.

Lee Halper

If the secretary of state says I can't be a member of two parties, I might have to take them to federal court for civil rights violation.

Eric Holder

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right.

Ashraf Qazi

I have invited political, religious and civil leaders to discuss confidence-building measures to ensure the situation remains under control.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Jason Aldean

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

Jason Aldean

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

bell hooks

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Bart Gordon

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Arundhati Roy

Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

Jim Bankoff

I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.

Jorge Castaneda

to establish a new era in U.S.-Mexico relations.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Donatella Versace

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Amy Heckerling

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

Gary Sheffield

Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Dorothy Lenard

Given that we are a river community, it behooves us to look at the situation.

Steve Shaw

Given that there's nothing else that does what we do, I think it's going to be around for some time.

Adenaan Hardien

Given that the outcome was in line with what had been anticipated, I don't think that today's release will increase the probability of an interest rate hike this year.

Suzanne Collins

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

Octavia Butler

That which could hunger, could starve.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

A. J. Liebling

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Fred Gray

If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was very unpopular, things would not have been accomplished.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Amy Poehler

I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.

Allen Klein

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Allen Klein

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Andrea Dworkin

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Hans Blix

they know very well what they should provide. We have not seen it yet.

Kevin McCollum

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

Ricky Proehl

That's as ugly as you get. Have you seen much uglier than that?

Mary Bowen

The devastation that we've seen today is just shocking. Before all this, you would never have thought in these terms.

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Abdallah II of Jordan

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

Abdallah II of Jordan

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.